TELEPHONE USERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

v.

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (19 total)

• Hoffman v. Carson, 250 So. 2d 891 (Fla. 1971)
  …Attorney General of Com. of Massachusetts, 383 U.S. 413, 86 S.Ct. 975, 16 L.Ed.2d 1 (1966). For precedential support, reliance is placed primarily upon the case of In re Giannini, 69 Cal.2d 563, 72 Cal.Rptr. 655, 446 P. 2d 535 (1968), cert. denied, 395 U.S. 910, 89 S.Ct. 1743, 23 L.Ed.2d 223. This assertion might be applicable in other circumstances, but we find that in relation to the performance as presented, it is without merit. Appellant loses sight of the distinction between speech and conduct. The s…
• State v. Ell-Gee, Inc., 255 So. 2d 542 (Fla. 3d DCA 1971)
  …o its lewd or obscene contents. Our Supreme Court, in Hoffman, has held that this is not so, and refused to follow the reasoning of the Supreme Court of California, In re Giannini, 69 Cal.2d 563, 72 Cal.Rptr. 655, 446 P. 2d 535 (1968), cert. denied, 395 U.S. 910, 89 S.Ct. 1743, 23 L.Ed.2d 223, upon which Barrows was predicated. Instead our Supreme Court held: “This assertion might be applicable in other circumstances, but we find that in relation to the performance as presented, it is without merit. Appell…
• California v. LaRUE, 409 U.S. 109 (U.S. 1972)
  …. United States, 398 U. S. 58 (1970); P. B. I. C., Inc. v. Byrne, 313 F. Supp. 757 (Mass. 1970), vacated to consider mootness, 401 U. S. 987 (1971); In re Giannini, 69 Cal. 2d 563, 446 P. 2d 535 (1968), cert. denied sub nom. California v. Giannini, 395 U. S. 910 (1969). If, as these many cases hold, movies, plays, and the dance enjoy constitutional protection, it follows, ineluctably I think, that their component parts are protected as well. It is senseless to say that a play is “speech” within the meaning…